Edit: All use of the term "bug" is relating to game-breaking bugs in particular.
I see this alot and felt the need to point this out.
Alot of people are trying to dissuade other users from posting negatively on the basis that it is not "constructive criticism." Alot of this is directed at users who are angry about bugs. Infact almost all of it is, as far as I've seen.
You cannot provide constructive criticism regarding an in-game bug. This is because by its nature, you are not making a suggestion, You are making a demand. Bugs are unacceptable in a finished game, I have experienced a bug(s), this is therefore unacceptable, fix the bug please. [Or words to that effect.]
That is not a suggestion - as it is not optional. Unless Bioware intend to retract and re-work all marketing + provide refunds for users who request it, then this is the status quo: This game is being sold as a complete game, and has been marketed as having functioning multi-player. It is therefore not something to be discussed or debated - there is an obligation to fix the bugs that users are experiencing, an obligation is fundamentally different from a suggestion, as a suggestion is optional and can be debated and argued.
That isn't the only reason this appliance of constructive criticism is misguided, though. You are criticising a bug - this is true. But it is not your obligation to provide constructive criticism on an element that by definition should not be present in a completed game. Moreover, unless you are a developer yourself, or someone with extensive technical knowledge, it is doubtful you could provide any constructive element to this critique beyond pointing out what you believe caused the bug in the first place, which is very often put in any given users rant anyway.
So to those of you who believe we shouldn't be discussing the bugs in the multi-player on the basis of non-constructive criticism, you are misguided. Does everybody want a pleasant community and forum? Yes. But equally so, blaming users for venting about very-real issues, rather than blaming the problems themselves, is misguided. And telling users to be silent is also misguided, as if nobody said anything then nobody - including lurkers who may well be considering buying the game - would know the state the multi-player is in.
Ultimately if we had a direct feed of information from the dev's regarding the bug fixes then users would be less inclined to criticise the bugs in the first instance. But that's another discussion for another thread, really.
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